Program directory · Health Canada
Home, Community and Palliative Care
- Department
- Health Canada
- Program code
- BVG03 (H)
- Core responsibility
- Health Care Systems
- In Departmental Plans
- 2018-19 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped
What it does
The Government of Canada is committed to supporting provinces and territories to enhance access to quality home, community and palliative care services for Canadians. Budget 2017 committed to $11 billion over ten years for two shared health priorities: home and community care (including palliative care) and mental health and addictions. In August 2017, Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT) governments agreed to common objectives and specific areas of action for these priorities, as set out in the FPT Common Statement of Principles on Shared Health Priorities. The agreed-upon areas of actions for home and community care are: spreading and scaling integrated models of care; enhancing access to palliative care; increasing support for caregivers; and enhancing home care infrastructure. Ongoing home and palliative care policy advice, evidence assessment, and stakeholder engagement support these efforts in the Department. In addition to work with provincial and territorial counterparts to advance pan-Canadian policy direction and a vision for palliative care, in August 2019, the Government released the five-year Action Plan on Palliative Care in Canada. The Plan commits to work with partners to take action in specific areas, such as education and training of health care providers, improved access for underserved populations, and greater palliative care research capacity.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home, Community and Palliative Care | This program | 2018-19 – 2024-25 | $4.41B |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | Indicators added: Median length of time a hospital stay is extended until home care services or supports are ready | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2020-21 | Indicators dropped: Projected number of patients occupying an alternative level of care (ALC) bed, who are waiting to be discharged home with home care services | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2021-22 | Spending $1.9B, against $651M in 2020-21 (+192%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2022-23 | Spending $602M, against $1.9B in 2021-22 (−68%). | Actual spending (GC InfoBase) |
| 2023-24 | Planned spending $1.2B, against $602M in 2022-23 (+100%). | Latest Departmental Plan |
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | — | — | — Data is collected annually by the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) but was not available at the time of reporting. Data for 2021-22 will be published by CIHI in December 2022. | No result reported |
| 2022-23 | — | 2023 | — Data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information was not available at the time of reporting. Data is expected to be available in December 2023. | No result reported |
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | — | 2020 | 30,000 A target for 2019-20 was not established, but current data (compared to 32,300 for 2018-19) indicates an improvement, with fewer patients waiting to be discharged home with home care services. The forecast number of patients occupying an alternative level of care (ALC) bed while waiting to be discharged home with home care services decreased from 32,300 for 2018-2019 to 30,000 for 2019-2020. | No result reported |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
No indicators in the 2026-27 plan.
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | $601M | $600M |
| 2019-20 | $651M | $651M |
| 2020-21 | $651M | $651M |
| 2021-22 | $1.4B | $1.9B |
| 2022-23 | $1.2B | $602M |
| 2023-24 | $1.2B* | — |
| 2024-25 | $1.2B* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 11 | 1 |
| 2019-20 | 11 | 11 |
| 2020-21 | 13 | 11 |
| 2021-22 | 19 | 16 |
| 2022-23 | 22 | 14 |
| 2023-24 | 19* | — |
| 2024-25 | 19* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 plan | $601,186,255 | $651,206,712 | $651,210,024 | ||||
| 2019-20 plan | $651,207,576 | $651,210,888 | $901,211,635 | ||||
| 2020-21 plan | $651,427,861 | $901,427,861 | $601,427,861 | ||||
| 2021-22 plan | $1,402,220,931 | $602,220,932 | $601,473,160 | ||||
| 2022-23 plan | $1,203,871,819 | $1,203,518,484 | $1,203,491,235 | ||||
| Actual | $599,584,485 | $651,377,991 | $651,342,398 | $1,901,718,905 | $602,216,758 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
